Monday's School Board Meeting will be held at SVMS in the LGI Room beginning at 6:30 p.m. On the agenda is the recommendation from the School Facilities Advisory Committee regarding the elementary consolidation plan.
🍋Students in grades K-5 are invited to participate in the Superintendent's (first-ever) STEM Challenge in partnership with our STEMonade Stand Family Night on March 2nd!
🍋If you have any questions about this optional (no grades attached!) at-home STEM project, email Melanie Beaver, Curriculum Director at [email protected].
Reminder to SVCS Community: No school this Friday or next Monday.
Friday is a scheduled school break and Monday is President's Day. Enjoy your 4-day weekend!
Reminder! Every school year, students entering kindergarten, 6th grade, and 12th grade require certain vaccinations and booster shots before entering those specific grade levels. If your 5th grader is already 11 years old, they can go ahead and get their Tdap and MCV4 (meningococcal) vaccines for 6th grade. For high school students over 16 years of age, they can go ahead and get their required MCV4 booster shot in preparation for their senior year. Appointments take time to schedule, so please start making plans now with your doctor, VPCHC Mobile Health Bus, or local health department to get these state-required school vaccinations! If you need more information, please reach out to your school nurse.
🍋📖Our One School One Book project is underway in our 3 elementary schools this month. All students and staff are reading The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. A summary from bookrags.com states, "This fictional novel addresses the complex relationship between brothers and sisters, as well as how arguments can spiral out of control when people quit communicating with each other. In the end, the siblings realize that working together is better than working against each other."
🍋📚Our students are learning the basics of economics, entrepreneurial skills, marketing, competition, and even forgiveness while reading this book at home with their families (or by listening to the chapter recordings via Canvas). Stay tuned for next week, students and families, because Superintendent Chapman provided the recording for chapter 8!
🍋📗Thank you to this year's sponsors: Clinton Optimists Club, Tri Kappa, Crown Hill Dentistry, Local Coordinating Council (LCC) of Vermillion County, ELANCO, and Vermillion County Community Foundation.
🗓K-5 Families: SAVE THE DATE!🗓
Stay tuned for an email so you can RSVP for this special event!
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We have a pretty awesome Counseling Department at South Vermillion! Help us thank them for everything they do for our students and staff!
📖TODAY IS WORLD READ ALOUD DAY!📖
Help us kick off our annual One School One Book project on behalf of all South Vermillion K-5 students and staff by commenting a book title that you remember someone reading aloud to you when you were in elementary school!!!
In the month of February, we are all reading the same book: The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies.
The 2023-2024 Academic Calendar was recently approved at the January School Board Meeting and can be accessed from the link below.
https://5il.co/1o5df
South Vermillion Community School will operate on a 2-Hour Delay tomorrow (Tuesday, January 31st).
💻The Indiana Learning Lab is a fantastic tool for parents and families. Check out the resources at inlearninglab.com to support your child in mathematics, literacy, digital learning, and more!
SVCS Schools will be operating on a 2-Hour Delay tomorrow (Thursday).
SV Schools are closed today. This is a Snow Day and will be made up on May 24th.
Should school be canceled again tomorrow, please be prepared as it will be an eLearning Day.
UPDATE: A determination will be made early tomorrow morning prior to 6:00 a.m. to assure that the correct decision is made on whether we will have school or not due to forecasted weather and the timing of it. Stay tuned...
Please be advised that we are monitoring the winter strom warning issued for the overnight and morning tomorrow. We will be making a decision on the school status for tomorrow by 6:00 pm at the latest.
This month's staff spotlight is on Lynn Thomas, custodian at South Vermillion Middle School. Thank you, Lynn, for all that you do for our staff and students! 🖤 💛
https://youtu.be/6RiJd2uRAKg
Congratulations, Melanie Beaver, a well-deserved honor!
📣Help us spread the word!
💻🏆Three of our SVMS Computer Science Inventor teams were invited to participate in the Indiana CSforGood State finals competition at the Indiana Statehouse. Brady Houser and Chad Mize presented a Medicine Cabinet Security System (CabMed) designed for elderly populations. Dannica Berry, Jaeden Doan, Leland Drake, and Aaden Boatman presented a school-focused clothing swap app (Cat Swap) designed for the school nurse. Blake Buckingham, Catherine Adamson, Avery Conner, and Jaelyn Creasey presented a Mental Health Check In App (Mental Matter) integrating artificial intelligence that was designed for our school counselor. Judges were industry leaders in computer science. All projects were developed using the problem solving process, algorithmic design, and computer programming. The winning team for the middle school division was one of our own: SVMS Mental Matter! WAY TO GO WILDCATS!!
The month's Staff Spotlight is on Kim Benton, we appreciate all that you do to safely transport our students to and from school!
https://youtu.be/ZQS3XxpYXdk
